Prologue : is there social progression? -- Our country newspaper : the genesis of its spirit -- Forerunners of women's collegiate education : and Mary Astell -- Uses and abuses of two English words : female, woman -- Plato's imperishable epigram : and its trail of light -- Fables of bronze and iron ages : of to-day -- "Tobacco battered and pipes shattered about their ears that idly idolize so base a weed" by Joshua Sylvester, Puritan.

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